BIODIVERSITAS ISSN: 1412-033X (printed edition) Volume 12, Number 4, October 2011 ISSN: 2085-4722 (electronic) Pages: 229-234 DOI: 10.13057/biodiv/d120408 Valuing quality of vegetation in recharge area of Seruk Spring, Pesanggrahan Valley, Batu City, East Java TITUT YULISTYARINI♥, SITI SOFIAH Purwodadi Botanic Garden, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jl. Raya Surabaya-Malang Km. 65, Purwodadi, Pasuruan 67163, East Java, Indonesia. Tel./Fax.: +62-341-426046; email:
[email protected] Manuscript received: 12 July 2010. Revision accepted: 9 June 2011. ABSTRACT Yulistyarini T, Sofiah S (2011) Valuing quality of vegetation in recharge area of Seruk Spring, Pesanggrahan Valley, Batu City, East Java. Biodiversitas 12: 229-234. A Seruk spring is one of the springs in Batu city which has water debit less than 1 liter per second. Land use changes of Seruk spring recharge area was occurred in 2001. Recharge area of Seruk Spring consists of anthropogenic forest, eucalypts plantation, bamboo forest, pines plantation, horticulture and housing. The aim of this research was to valuing the quality of vegetation which supported ground water recharge in Seruk spring. Quality of vegetation was determined by vegetation structure, diversity, the thickness of litter and C-stock of each land use systems. Forests, eucalypts plantation and bamboo forests had almost same quality of vegetation. Key words: tree species, diversity, composition of vegetation, anthropogenic forest. INTRODUCTION roots), (iv) uptake of water (van Noordwijk et al. 2004). Seruk springs had debit less than 1 liter/second. The Batu City located at the Brantas watershed has many water of this spring is resource for drinking water, washing, water springs.